We all want renewable energy, but the landscape is an important part of the environment as well.

And you can be assured if I am around, I will.

I think the issues that you are raising, Senator Alexander, and which Senator Feinstein has raised with me as well, is that there is a way in which we can move forward with this renewable energy revolution and at the same time make sure…

I think it is the right way to go, and I will be just as supportive as I can.

Your budget proposes $50 million for activities designed to increase the use of renewable energy.

Well, in a nutshell, what I am saying is we have specifically appropriated now $62 million to get cracking on these mines, and I am a little bit frustrated trying to find out what is happening.

I was the author of the Desert Protection Act, which created the Joshua Tree, Death Valley National Parks and the Mojave Preserve.

As an old horse person, these wild horses have a real place in our country.

I think I told you about the whitetail deer in the Point Reyes National Seashore, and there was helicopters shooting of these deer by the Park Service.

So the problem is that $500?

Well, then would you send us the list, please? I would like to see the list.

I would like to just continue on the abandoned mine subject because we have 47,000 abandoned mines in California, and an estimated 13,000 are on BLM land.

I just want you to know that this money is there with the view that you will, in fact, participate in these raids.

This marijuana growing is not benign. These are Mexican nationals. They are armed, and they are very dangerous.

my parish priest, the pastor, he wrote a very nice letter to Senator Dianne Feinstein in support of my plight.

Our subcommittee clerk actually went and took pictures of some of these, particularly in California and on BLM land.

I am pleased that the administration has requested no funding for this program in its fiscal year 2010 budget request.

The President has made it very clear that he wants a number lower than the 1,700 to 2,200 number.

The promise for the future is so great in terms of nuclear science and what nuclear science might produce as we develop the green economy.

I think the buildup of huge nuclear weapons, 90 percent of which are owned by Russia and the United States, really endangers the world and really opens us up to all kinds of problems.

The place is amazing. I have never seen anything like it. It truly looks like Star Wars.

I think a purpose of the lab--or of this program, obviously, is to see that our nuclear weapons are safe without testing.

I think the mission is subtly changing, the mission of the labs. I think the privatization is toward pushing things into the private sector.

I would agree that there have been administrative changes, security changes, and that is good--at a tremendous price.

It just seems almost cruel to me that in some cases you have cures that are waiting there but people die waiting for that to get approved.